Tech Tip Thursday: setting up a Power BI test tenant
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube show us the three steps needed to set up a managed trial Office 365/Azure Active Directory tenant as a test environment.
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Webinars for June 20-28: Power BI Security and Introduction to M by Chris Webb
Chris Webb on M, Marco Russo covering DAX, and the product team sharing their plans for Security — don’t miss this fantastic slate of June webinars!
» Read moreHelp Improve Power BI Desktop
Here at Power BI, we love customer feedback. It’s critical for us to learn what we’re doing well and how we can improve. About once a quarter, we run a survey to get insight into your level of satisfaction with Power BI and to help understand how we can make the Desktop experience even better. This is a great chance to help us shape the product, and also enter for the chance to win some prizes if you complete the survey by 5pm PST on June 22, 2016.
» Read morePower BI Notification Center
Welcome to the brand new Power BI Notification Center! We’ve added a notification feed to your Power BI menu. Open it to see important information we think you won’t want to miss. For…
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: User Principal Name (UPN) mapping in Power BI
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube looks at what a UPN is in Active Directory, and how you can use the new Map user name feature to create UPN mappings for Analysis Services Live connections that go through the enterprise gateway for Power BI.
» Read moreHere’s what the Power BI team has planned for Microsoft Ignite
The Microsoft Ignite 2016 Session Catalog is now live—with more than 440 sessions to choose from. Check out a sample of the Power BI topics you’ll find.
» Read moreWebinar 6/14: Going Hardcore on your Business Intelligence with Power BI, by Adam Cogan
On June 14, come watch a living Power BI legend get hardcore on Business Intelligence! This webinar will cover authoring reports with Power BI Desktop by connecting to data sources and building a data model, and publishing the end result to the Power BI service.
» Read more4 recommended practices for new DAX users
On May 31, Paul Turley, Mentor for SolidQ and a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for the Microsoft Data Platform, presented a Power BI Community Webinar on “Best DAX Practices From the Field”. If you’re just starting to learn DAX, check out Paul’s four recommended practices for new users!
» Read moreTech Tip Thursday: 3 ways Reporting Services and Power BI work together
In this week’s Tech Tip Thursday, Guy in a Cube celebrates the arrival of SQL Server 2016 by demonstrating three ways that Reporting Services and Power BI are even more powerful when used together. Learn how Reporting Services integrates with the Power BI Mobile app, how Reporting Services handles Power BI Desktop files, and how to pin visuals from Reporting Services to a Power BI dashboard.
» Read moreSmarter Auto-Generated Insights with Complex Filters
We hope you are enjoying using Quick Insights on your dashboards, and we are happy to announce that Quick Insights scoped to a single tile just got a whole lot smarter. This is a great feature for…
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